The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-10


duty. About 400 pounds of meat had been
removed from the car when they were de
tected.
Since Yellowstone Kits arrival in Au-
guSta, and his distribution of money among
the negroes there, they have become quite
impertnent, and have in a number of in
stances insulted white persons passing near
Kits show. Thursday night burly negro,
named Jim Baldwin, insulted young dry
goods clerk who was standing at Wards
store on the corner of Greene and jackson
streets AS he did so the young man reached
around and secured a base ball bat, with
which he dealt the negro fearful blow,
breaking his jawbone and injuring him
severely. The young man was arrested.
1t has been extensively published that a
man named Pettijohn, who was tried and
convicted of murder in Forsyth county
some twenty-fi five or thirty years ago, and
who made his escape. had been found in
Arkansas, and that the Sheriff of Forsyth
county had gone for him with requisition
from the Governor. 1t appears that this
| is partly mistake. That Pettijohn has
been found is true, but the Sheriff has not
| been after the man, nor will he IN all
| probability be called on to go. Pettijohn is
now very old and infrm. and will probably
! live but short time. The general i'm
preston is that he will not be molested.
| Fourteen years ago gentleman of Cuth-
| bert had a misunderstanding with friend,
| causing an eStrangement and breaking of
the warm ties of friendship. Time wore on,
| and the two drifted apart, the quondam
| friend seeking a home in distant part of
the country. A few days ago a letter was
received by the Cuthbert gentleman from
the distant friend Of former days, stating
that he had often wished to correct the
misunderstanding It Is needless TO say
the letter brought ray of happiness to the
countenance of tine recipient, though the oc
/ currence had long since passed out of mind,
and he FASTENED to so inform the writer.
The last surprising event at Dalton is a
marriage at the National hotel, at midnight,
| c. II. Hubbard, of Chattanooga, and Miss
| Nena Taylor, of Birmingham, Ala, being
! the persons TO enter the connubial state
Miss Taylor had been guest of the Nation
al for sometime, and on Monday night last
| Mr.. Hubbard arrived from Chattanooga on
| the night express and proposed the hasty
| marriage to his fiance. She readily consent
| ed, so minister was aroused from his slum-
| bers, the groom-elect repaired to the resi-
| dence of the Ordinary and secured his Ii
| cense, and Just as the clock struck twelve
the last irrevocable words, which bound the
| pair were spoken, and an early train bore
| them away on their bridal tour
The Ways, GA, correspondent writes as
| follows under date of Sept 8: "An arte-
the Savannah. Florida and Western rail
way. A good stream of water will, it is
| expected be found. All that is needed is
| good water to put Ways on a boom. The
crops in this section are fine, especially the
rice crop. A large yield is expected. The
planters are busy harvesting. One planter
has threshed out several thousand bushels
Of the new crop. The merchants are put
ting in large stocks, and expect to do a
good business this fall. The wife of Mr.
Harden, of Bryan Neck, died last night
after short illness. The store of Mr.. E.
B. Sutton was entered by burglars few
days ago. The loss was not very heavy"
The people living about Stone Mountain,
Lithonia, Decatur and Redan, are apprehen-
sive of further trouble with negroes, and
within the past few days have become con-
sderably alarmed. For some time past,
there has been great deal of talk along the
Georgia railroad between Decatur and
Stone Mountain, of mass meeting among
the negroes. The talk began Immediately
after Hudson. the negro who assaulted the
lady at Redan, was hung by the mob, and
continued without interruption until the
Decatur riot, since which it has increased
With the beginning of this week the talk of
grand mass meeting of the negroes has
been revived. The r,imor has it that the
meeting will be held in or near Stone Noun
tain on Saturday night next. The meeting,
it is said, will be largely attended, and if it
does occur trouble may be one of the re-
suite.
Joseph L. Clarke married man abouts2S
years old, living near Avalon, was arrested
Wednesday charged with attempt at rape
on the person of Miss Emma Looney, daugh-
ter of A. G. Looney. Miss Looney is Is or
16 years of age, of unblemished character
and of good family. Mr. and Mrs Looney
were away from home, and on Sunday
evening Miss Emma walked out from
the house a short distance, and hearing
some one behind looked around and
saw Clarke. He caught her around the
waist, put his hand upon her throat and
carried her some distance into the bushes
The girl was choked till she could not make
any cutlery, but before Clarke left her he
was seen and recognized by James Kay,
Richard M9sely and Lucas Looney,; Kay
is the brother-in-law of Clarke, and Looney
is the brother of the victim. The prisoner
denies that he lis guilty.
Mention has been made of the killing, in
Crawford county, of a negro named Lucus
Futril by white man named James Chan
cellor. Information was brought to Macon,
from Crawford, Thursday which gives the
particulars. 1t is is said that the negro Lu-
cius and his wife went to work for Chancel-
Tor on the S. w. Bassett place. On Monday
Lucius was put TO work on one side of the
that the day and wage hands would not be
together. ircius did not like this arrange
ment and told Mr. Chancellor that had he
known that he and his wife were to be
separated he would not have gone
to work for him. Some hot
words here passed between them,
and at something Chancellor thought was
insulting he drew his knife, while Lucius
armed himself with a fence rail This
caused Chancellor to back. and in doing so
said he would see the negro later. That
evening, SO the information goes, Chancellor
went to the house where Lucius and his wife
We're living and was armed with double
barrel shotgun. He then told Lucius to
bring on his fence rail. Just what here en-
sued no one seems to know, except that the
gun was fired and its contents lodged in the
left breast Of the negro, making a hole in
which hand could have been placed. The
negro died almost instantly. Chancellor
then fled for parts unknown. He is a
farmer.
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